"Designed primarily for weighing letters in order to determine postage, this non-digital, non-electronic, and barely even mechanical little gizmo is nonetheless accurate enough that its use has been approved by the US Postal Service. Besides its role as a letter-weigher, the 'Personal Post Office Scale' has reportedly also found use in fields such as home brewing, field biology, cooking, and police work." Read more / Order. Thanks, Rasmus.
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A Low-tech Trick to Eliminate Standby Power Consumption
Standby power use is the electricity consumed by appliances and other equipment when they are switched off or not performing their primary purpose. It is responsible for 3 to 12 percent of residential electricity use worldwide (source, pdf). Freelance journalist Robert Buzink has a low-tech solution for this - all you need is a pair of scissors and a screwdriver. The text is in Dutch but the pictures speak for themselves.
